ATLANTA – For the first time in his career Jordan Spieth failed to qualify for this week’s Tour Championship, an unexpected turn that also found him on the wrong side of a new PGA Tour regulation. Under the circuit’s strength-of-field requirement, which began last season, a player must add an event to their schedule that […]
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Premiering Monday, Sept. 24 at 9 p.m. ET on Golf Channel, Film Details How Ballesteros, Faldo, Langer, Lyle & Woosnam Helped Establish Competitive Spirit Synonymous with Modern-Day Ryder Cup “Seve came in [the team room] and said ‘We must celebrate, we must celebrate! This is a victory for us, we can do this!’” – Nick […]
ATLANTA – Lost in Tuesday’s announcement that the PGA Tour will dramatically overhaul how the FedExCup champion will be crowned was exactly what this means for the Tour Championship. The top 30 on the playoff points list will continue to advance to the finale at East Lake with the field handicapped based on their position […]
The PGA Tour huddled for 3 ½ years, consulted with the geniuses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ran countless simulations for its strokes-based system. And it still got it wrong. In a move that surely will alienate many of its hardcore fans, the Tour on Tuesday unveiled its new format for the Tour […]
ATLANTA – Tuesday’s housekeeping tidied up two problems, but left the potential for more messes. After 11 years of equal parts trial and error, the PGA Tour unveiled what is essentially the final piece of a complicated and far-reaching overhaul of the FedExCup on Tuesday at East Lake, a sweeping change that will dramatically alter […]
The top 30 players in the FedExCup standings are back at East Lake for the Tour Championship. Here’s the key info for the 48th and final official event of the 2017-2018 PGA Tour season. Golf course: East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Ga., was opened in 1908 and designed by Tom Bendelow. East Lake was redesigned by […]
ATLANTA – Even players who have known the details of the PGA Tour’s plan to dramatically change the way it crowns a FedExCup champion were still digesting the details on Tuesday at the Tour Championship. “I think it’s maybe easier to follow for people at home. Kind of definitely strange and very different to be […]
Tiger Woods’ year-long probation stemming from last year’s DUI arrest has been terminated a month early. According to Sam Smink of WPTV, Woods, 42, was let off probation early for successfully completing all regular and special conditions of his probation after pleading guilty to reckless driving and entering a diversion program last October. Under the […]
ATLANTA – After winning last year’s FedExCup, Justin Thomas was asked about his goals for the season and he quickly went to his phone. A list of 13 “goals” had been typed in, a rundown that ranged from qualifying for the Tour Championship to finishing in the top 10 in half of the circuit’s statistical […]
GolfChannel.com senior writer Randall Mell and staff writer Will Gray examine the recently announced changes to the FedExCup and Tour Championship, and weigh in on the pros and cons. GRAY: We’ve got some more changes for 2019 to digest, both with the FedExCup and how the Tour Championship will be determined. No more points reset, […]